Freedom of speech? Only if you're well-informed enough to understand and know how to use that freedom and, oddly enough, I get the sense that someone is repeatedly trying to keep us in the dark. Yet, thanks to the internet, you only need to pay one short visit to google to find out the magnitude of what the U.S. media is turning an apparently blind eye on.
There is a website with the url for it:
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/
There is a blog subdivision under that url for it:
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/blog.html
There's even an entry in the web-o-pedia, Wikipedia, for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo
We get 20 something stations blaring about celebrity relationship problems and a runaway bride and compared to that we have--what? Exactly. We have a "what?" for something that had involved the loss of lives, not only in this country that the government is (at least supposidly) in charge of, but in another country that, if all the facts came out straight, the U.S. government had no business controlling in the first place.
The author Dan Brown had a point about the dangers of knowledge, and the cliche of the dangers of understanding too little knowledge is well planted. Either read the news and conduct your own mini-research each day to see what is really happening, or don't pay attention to the news at all.
But then, that's another problem, isn't it? Too many people playing the snail from Anderson's fairytales--withdrawing into their shells and insisting that the world has nothing to do with them. The world will go to hell, hell will freeze over, and then what?
Points for Kate, ranting does feel good.
I am in a madhouse, but half the world is run by madmen and nobody complains. -Ted Mundy from Absolute Friends by John Le Carre
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